YAKUSHO Koji (1956, Japan) is a renowned Japanese actor who, in 1989, won his first Japan Academy Award for his role in Under Aurora. Many awards would follow for his work as an actor. In 2005, Yakusho appeared in Memoirs of a Geisha (directed by Rob Marshall) and in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel (released in Japan in 2007). Toad's Oil (2009) is Yakusho's debut as a film maker.
Gama no abura/Toad's Oil (2009)